“It’s a struggle to get anywhere, my back hurts, and I can’t get to my clients,” said Migel, who does physical therapy in homes.

Likewise, Patrick Moriarity of Highlands Ranch is restless.

“God, is this ever going to end?” he asked. “It feels kind of paralyzing.”

“Snow fatigue syndrome” is what therapist Libby Bortz of Littleton calls it. It’s breaking out all over the metro area.

“People are depressed, angry, irritable,” Bortz said. “They’ve had to change plans. Commutes are hard, so they feel displaced. There is disappointment, sadness and even rage.”

“The first storm was novel,” said Bortz, a clinical social worker in private therapy practice. “But we didn’t get back to normal, so the psychological stress escalates rapidly.”

Helpfulness and neighborliness have fallen off since the second storm, some say. It seemed to take folks longer to start shoveling Friday, for instance, than it did after the previous week’s storm.

And people weren’t quite as jolly in the grocery store, said Mary Hetherington, a Laramie native. She said it reminded her of when she was a child with a newspaper route.

“The first storm, the neighbors would see me and invited me in for hot chocolate,” she said. “Then they didn’t do it during the rest of the storms.”

Still, some aren’t bothered by the snow. “I’m not depressed at all,” said Mitzi Gallegos-Scisney of southeast Denver. “I don’t mind the inconvenience, and this may mean we won’t have water restrictions next summer.”

Reactions can vary, said Claire Purcell, a Denver psychologist. “Some people are philosophical and tolerant, and some are grim and angry,” she said. “But there is anger and frustration because we have no control, and some people can’t stand that. We don’t know when the snow will end, and we can’t stop it.”

How people normally handle stress and change shows up in a crisis such as a storm, said Tom Meehan, a licensed social worker in the west metro area.

Some people “embrace a crisis, use good judgment, are dependable, help other people,” Meehan said. “And other people feel resentful, victimized, powerless and run over.”

In addition to all the stresses of the blizzard, a holiday blizzard has the added one of relatives visiting and maybe staying longer than planned. Sometimes, that’s longer than family members want to be together, and they get angry.

That’s because the family members are forced to deal with unresolved issues they already had with one another, Meehan said.

In any crisis, he said, it’s best to come to terms with the event and accept it.

It’s also important to realize that you are dependent on others and that you are helpless to change the weather – and then try to enjoy it.

“We need to remember we got through the first blizzard,” Meehan said, “and we can get through this one.”

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